THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

From R. Vaughan Williams,
The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.

Feb 7 1946

Dear John

That is a fine work – one of your best – & it is the best [of] you all the way through – so many works by most composers only transcend themselves & thereby become their real selves in patches – but this seems to me to be your real self all through.¹
I think they played it well – & the audience were evidently impressed
Yrs

R. Vaughan Williams

1.  Probably Ireland’s Fantasy Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, composed in 1943, published in 1945. The British Musem copy was deposited in January 1946.